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Hi everyone

Regarding the symphonies of Sgambati :
No 1 received a live performance in Rome last autumn and is being recorded
No 2 is now re-published in a 2nd (improved and corrected) edition  - and will be recorded next year (I'm just finishing printing the orchestral parts now)
No 3 is also up for recording soon - it is indeed the work to which you all referred, it is the Epitalamio written for the Aosta wedding. I've prepared some of the new score already and I'll put a snatch on this site soon.

Apologies for the delayed response to the thread - I've been a bit busy recently but, as you can tell, there are some exciting things afoot       

No nothing radical ! Stefan Malzew, conductor of the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic orchestra is attempting to 'guess' what the original orchestration might have sounded like because the original score is missing and only the piano duet version of the symphony still exists. Quite a big undertaking (and it might have been fun to do a Stravinsky style neo-classical version) !

Hi Peter
I have owned a copy of the CD with Mayer's 5th symphony for some years and I am sure you will like it - personally I like the Le Beau piano concerto best.
Emilie Mayer is certainly an interesting composer.   Her music is very good but it is not innovative (she died in the same year as Wagner). As you will have noticed, it is highly reminiscent of Beethoven's for which reason her contemporaries nicknamed her 'the female Beethoven'.
Stefan Malzew is currently working on a re-orchestration of her B minor symphony for performance in October.
Roz

200th birthday celebrations begin next week for Emilie Mayer, the so-called 'Female Beethoven'.  Concerts between May and will be held in Berlin and its environs, beginning in Neubrandenburg on Thursday with the new world premieres of her symphony in E major and piano concerto.

I shall be in the audience of the opening night and particularly excited as the Philharmonic orchestra will be performing from the edition published by me.  I hope some of you other enthusiasts manage to be there also.

details of concerts
http://www.festspiele-mv.de/en/node/17999

I don't even know when the 2nd symphony was published, come to think of it, or what shape existing sources

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The symphony was not published until 2006 and the original score is missing from the archives, presumed lost. In 2005 I settled in Rome for a few weeks and painstakingly reconstructed a score from the original handwritten orchestral parts.  This was to become the first book ever to be published by what was then called Virtually Unknown and is now a much bigger business called Trübcher publishing.
During the intervening years everything including technology has improved. The new edition reflects these changes. It is based on the old edition but with better layout, new covers, corrections and improved virtual recordings.
If you would like to hear more of it, the other three movements will be appearing on YouTube shortly - or better still encourage your conductor friends to perform it and record it !http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley.gif

If anyone is interested to hear some of Sgambati's 2nd symphony, I've put the 2nd movement on YOuTube
http://youtu.be/leGPTikJRBo.
It's part of the new edition that I'm publishing with corrections, better layout and better recording (technology just goes on getting better!)

Also, the 1st symphony is being performed in Rome next weekend.

The symphony in E major by Emilie Mayer is published today !  at last ! In an affordable modern edition.
the study score will be on sale and the conductor's score and orchestral set for hire. A performance of the work is likely to happen in May 2012 .  It's a work distinctly in the classical style with strong leanings towards Beetthoven but it nonetheless has a distinctive quality to it , a sort of 'female touch' that I hear in it and yet have not identified what gives it that quality !  Lots of enharmonic changes. The orchestra includes three trombones and there is a triangle in the last movement - the symphony was written in 1853, the same year that Liszt significantly employed a triangle in his Eb piano concerto. If you like to listen to a bit of it go to this address:
http://soundcloud.com/rosflute/emilie-mayer-sinfonie-in-e-dur

.....and I thank Roz for her effort to make this music known.....

Marcus thank you for this mention!  I have just come across this site and have been very interested to read entries.
To update you on the Sgambati:  I have just finished a 2nd revised edition of the score and eradicated a few typos and made a better looking score. So now I am looking towards a first performance to coincide with the centenary of his death in 1914.

Hi everyone _ I've just discovered your website and am pleased to say hello.
If any of you play flute, you may be interested to know that I have published a revised version of his Bruneau's Romance for flute and piano and have plans to publish more of his music. Apparently Taffanel had a large hand in the Romance's  composition which is probably why so much of it is written in the low register. It comes across as pleasant, rather unremarkable music but their are subtleties to it that are not at first apparent and that benefit from closer studies.  I own a vocal score of the Attaque du Moulin (which I enjoy) and the same qualities of quiet understatement can be seen there also.